Chapter 26

In the clear, transparent sky, two figures faced off; under the collision of their massive auras, not a single intact cloud remained around them.

One side was Wei Yi, the young master of Cloud Sea City who had just run away from home; at this moment his face was full of solemnity and barely concealed excitement.

Opposite him was a pure black cloud beast, without a trace of mixed color; if not for the relentlessly emanating ruthless aura, he would have thought it was a pure-water-line cloud beast.

"This aura, could it be a Heavenly Devil?" As the young city master, he naturally knew this information, but this was still the first time he had seen one.

This was the demon soul that his father had let go; taking advantage of the hint, it seized a cloud beast's body and relentlessly came to block Wei Yi.

【Sixth Grade!】 Wei Yi's excited eyes were almost blazing; the opportunity for breakthrough came so quickly. His intuition told him that as long as he killed this guy, he would break through.

"Disgusting taste!" The black cloud beast flapped its wings, and a gust of wind swept over.

Wei Yi then saw clearly that it was actually a bird-shaped cloud beast; before, it was simply too dark to make out.

Activating the crystal ball in his hand, a black-and-white light curtain blocked the incoming gust.

【I don't have any weird smell on me, so why are you blowing wind at me right away?】 A random thought flashed through Wei Yi's mind, and then he was stunned.

The white half of the light curtain facing the incoming black gust burst forth with an effect beyond imagination, directly annihilating half of the gust.

This wasn't anything special; normally Wei Yi would at most sigh that cloud beasts also come in defective versions, but the effect displayed by the black light curtain was astonishing!

The black gust blowing onto the black light curtain almost instantly merged into it without hesitation; Wei Yi even didn't feel any sensation of refinement.

Both sides simultaneously withdrew, each astonished.

Wei Yi didn't know the power of this black ability, but the demon soul was very clear about it.

The abilities mastered by the demon soul came from a destroyed world, filled with death and resentment; how could it be otherwise?

Wait! This is, Death True Intent?! The demon soul discovered that, despite the foul merit aura, it actually contained the flavor of Life and Death True Intent.

They had experienced death many times, but life was truly hard to comprehend; without life, death could not exist on its own.

"This body is really not bad, hahaha!"

Faced with the suddenly berserk demon soul, Wei Yi showed no reaction; with the merit filtration, only unpleasant noise reached his ears.

"Body snatching? Then let's see your ability." Wei Yi smiled even more eerily than the demon soul.

The demon soul continued flapping its wings; the black wind blew, making the sky dark, and Wei Yi actually lost his perception of the demon soul.

But Wei Yi didn't panic; instead, he felt a bit like laughing. Comparing consumption, you actually dare to compare consumption with the young master of Cloud Sea City.

He directly sacrificed the crystal ball, taking himself inside it.

The crystal ball expanded to over a person's height, while Wei Yi's body shrank to palm size.

The two sides reached a stalemate; the demon soul had no way to deal with Wei Yi, who was filled with merit power, but Wei Yi also couldn't unleash an attack power matching his cultivation level.

Equipment cultivation is just like that: early stage relies on gear, mid stage relies on gear, late stage you yourself become the gear.

"Let's try these first!" Wei Yi picked up the piled equipment on the ground and threw them out; these were his practice pieces, always stacked here.

Flames, lightning, flowers, flying birds—various attacks surged toward the black wind, all like mud oxen entering the sea, with no effect whatsoever.

Five Elements Formation, Four Symbols Formation, Three Talents Formation, Spirit Gathering Formation. Hmm, seems I threw the wrong ones?

The vast spiritual energy reserves of the Cloud Immortal Realm meant cultivators of this realm didn't need to worry about spiritual power; the Spirit Gathering Formation was still recorded in an artifact-forging classic taken from other realms, and Wei Yi's crafting of it was merely out of curiosity.

After all, cultivating under tenfold concentration of spiritual energy is hardly different from soaking in spiritual liquid—let alone a person, even a cloud beast couldn't stand it!

Yet the Spirit Gathering Formation, which no one had hoped would do anything, actually played a huge role; the black wind was directly blasted with a big hole, and although the damaged area was quickly filled in, Wei Yi still noticed it.

He clearly felt that, at the moment the Spirit Gathering Formation activated, a large amount of cloud qi gathered, directly piercing the black wind and, along the way, tearing a large section.

【This black wind is actually energy opposite to spiritual power!】 Wei Yi was greatly astonished; this simply challenged his worldview.

The method to break the stalemate had already appeared; Wei Yi hesitated not, directly erupting with a massive surge of spiritual energy, in one go blasting away the black wind.

"Haha! Let's see what else you can do." Wei Yi emerged from the crystal ball, mocking the demon soul that was nothing but a soul.

【The soul is pitch black—what exactly is this?】

Before he could figure it out, the demon soul, feeling greatly wronged, lunged straight at him and then perished together with the merit.

This lunge directly made Wei Yi's merit light thin by a layer, giving him another startle.

Only after careful inspection did he discover that he was completely unharmed.

"Damn it, I forgot everything!" Wei Yi felt a secret joy before remembering why he had come.

Without a life-and-death battle, there would be no so-called comprehension.

"Forget it, this shows we're not at a dead end yet." Wei Yi comforted himself while complaining about this useless cloud beast, 【still came from outside the heavens, I pfft!】

The crystal ball rotated, the spiritual energy previously released was reclaimed; these were all the spiritual energy he had refined, containing his own will, making reclamation quite convenient.

No! Halfway through the reclamation, he realized where the problem lay.

The black wind that had seemed to be neutralized by the spiritual energy reappeared, and as the reclamation of spiritual energy continued, the black wind returned to its original size.

"What!"

As the black wind gathered, the demon soul reappeared and entered his natal magic treasure.

"Hahaha, ignorant child, ignorant child! Do you think hiding your soul here means I can't find you?" The demon soul laughed wildly; in its eyes, Wei Yi's soul shone as brightly as a light in the night.

Moreover, he was born of destruction; how could he be so easily destroyed?

"Now hand over your body!" With this body containing the true meaning of life and death, he might truly be able to live.

"Separate life and death!" Wei Yi frantically activated his unfinished ultimate technique.

The two-colored spiritual energy inside the crystal ball merged into one, and like a washing machine it spun wildly; the spiritual objects inside the crystal ball were also ground up, mixed together until they were completely indistinguishable.

"Separate!" Wei Yi's voice was like the sound of creation; the spiritual energy inside the crystal ball instantly halted, the clear rose, the turbid sank, as if heaven and earth were being split apart.

The demon soul and demon qi were separated; the demon soul came to the position representing life, while the demon qi sank to the bottom representing death.

"Kind of interesting!" Wei Yi watched the demon soul's suffering, then sharply inhaled a breath of spiritual energy.

"Refreshing!"

"Please! Kill me! Kill me!" The demon soul, as if having suffered great injury, actually began to beg for mercy.

"Oh, then if you can answer a few of my questions, I might consider it!" Wei Yi said.

"Good! Good! I agree!" The demon spirit hurriedly agreed.

Happy New Year!